Teaching with Writing Annual Faculty Seminar

August 18–22, 2025

Request to register by 8/1/25

Since 2002, the five-day annual Teaching with Writing Faculty Seminar has offered UMN faculty members a congenial, retreat-like opportunity to develop or revise writing assignments, activities, instruction, and assessments for a course they teach. This seminar welcomes instructors across the University's curriculum; we understand writing as a broad category encompassing verbal, numeric, figurative, visual, and alphabetic modes.

Each participant spends the week focusing on one course they teach. Participants identify course learning goals and develop tailored, logistically feasible writing activities, instruction practices, and assessments that support students in meeting those goals. Participants will enjoy lively conversation with interesting colleagues from across the disciplines, as well as plenty of good coffee, tea, and snacks.

Seminar scaffolded content days 1-5

Important Notes

  • When and where will we meet? The seminar will be held August 18-22, 2025. We’ll meet in person each day from 9:30 am–12:30 pm. Sessions will be held on the East Bank (exact location TBA).
  • Do I need to attend every day? Yes, we ask participants to commit to attending every session. The seminar is intentionally scaffolded, with each new session building on our prior work.
  • Who can participate? This seminar is tailored to instructors of record and lead instructors for courses.* These faculty and instructors can attend individually or collaborate with a team (which might include others who design and/or deliver course instruction, such as TAs). We ask that each prospective attendee submit their own request to register.
  • How do I request to register? Complete our online request form by August 1, 2025. The seminar is capped at 25, so you may be unable to register if the cap is reached.

Who takes this seminar?

Since 2002, the annual Five-Day Teaching with Writing Seminar has enrolled participants from the following departments: 

Academic Health Center | Accounting | Aerospace Engineering | African American & African Studies | Agricultural Education | Agronomy and Plant Genetics | American Studies | Animal Science | Anthropology | Architecture | Art | Art History | Asian & Middle Eastern Studies | Biochemistry | Biology | Bioproducts & Biosystems Engineering | Chemical Engineering | Chemical Engineering & Materials Science | Chemistry | Chicano Studies | Civil Engineering | Communication Studies | Computer Science & Engineering | Construction Management | Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature | Curriculum & Instruction | Dental Hygiene | Design, Housing, and Apparel | Ecology, Evolution and Behavior | Economics | Educational Psychology | Electrical Engineering | English | Epidemiology | Epidemiology & Community Health | Family Social Science | Finance | Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology | Food Science and Nutrition | Forest Resources | French & Italian | Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies | General College | Genetics, Cell Biology and Development | Geography | German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch | Global Studies | German, Scandinavian & Dutch | Health Services Management | History | History of Medicine | History of Science and Technology | Horticultural Science | Hubbard School of Journalism & Mass Communication | Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs | Industrial and Systems Engineering | Information and Decision Sciences | Kinesiology | Law | Linguistics | Marketing | Mathematics | Mechanical Engineering | Medical Laboratory Sciences | Medicine | Microbiology | Mortuary Science | Music | Natural Resources Science & Management | Neuroscience | Nursing | Organizational Leadership & Professional Development | Pharmaceutical Care & Health Systems | Rhetoric | Pharmacy | Philosophy | Plant Biology | Preventative Sciences | Political Science | Psychology | Second Language Acquisition Spanish & Portuguese Studies |  Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences | Social Work | Sociology | Soil, Water, and Climate |  Spanish & Portuguese | Surgery | Theatre Arts & Dance | Veterinary Medicine | Work & Human Resources Education | Writing Studies | Youth Studies
 

Facilitators

Matthew Luskey

Matthew Luskey
Director, Writing Across the Curriculum

Jessa Wood

Jessa Wood
Assistant Director, Writing Across the Curriculum